[ Howl feels his talons graze through something. Although he can immediately tell it wasn't the lethal blow he'd been vying for, the sound of the centaur's pained hiss and stumbling hooves, and an accompanying smell of blood, gives him malicious satisfaction. She won't soon forget this — even if Howl doesn't kill her, she'll have to think about this, about him, the next time the Pleroma even thinks about invading Achamoth again —
Howl is beating his wings hard, trying to recover from the failed dive and get back in the air, when a second intense pain shoots through his upper back. Hayame's arrow has missed his head, only to bury itself deep in this form's equivalent of a shoulder blade. Every heavy beat of his wings as he tries to regain altitude is accompanied by the horrible pain of an arrowhead embedded in bone, as will every beat of his wings for the rest of the raid.
It's clear from the more strained way that Howl moves that Hayame wounded him far more severely with that arrow than with the one that hit him in the upper chest. Growling in anger and pain, the monster cranes his neck slightly to look back at the ground below and behind him. He sees the long lines of blood on her flank. Should he try to strike again? Is the risk of a few more arrows worth it? Emet-Selch or Ciel could remove them and heal him, if he can find them among the chaos —...
The wizard's black form pirouettes above as he angles himself for another dive. He has a sense for the speed of her draw now. If he can find the right opening, he can do this. ]
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Howl is beating his wings hard, trying to recover from the failed dive and get back in the air, when a second intense pain shoots through his upper back. Hayame's arrow has missed his head, only to bury itself deep in this form's equivalent of a shoulder blade. Every heavy beat of his wings as he tries to regain altitude is accompanied by the horrible pain of an arrowhead embedded in bone, as will every beat of his wings for the rest of the raid.
It's clear from the more strained way that Howl moves that Hayame wounded him far more severely with that arrow than with the one that hit him in the upper chest. Growling in anger and pain, the monster cranes his neck slightly to look back at the ground below and behind him. He sees the long lines of blood on her flank. Should he try to strike again? Is the risk of a few more arrows worth it? Emet-Selch or Ciel could remove them and heal him, if he can find them among the chaos —...
The wizard's black form pirouettes above as he angles himself for another dive. He has a sense for the speed of her draw now. If he can find the right opening, he can do this. ]